in obama's handling oftheeconomyandromney. we have two jobs report left before the election. do you think -- well, what do you think the impact will be? >> i don't think there will be all that significant because if it was going to be significant in the jobs report obama would be toast. he has had 43 months in his term so far where the jobless rate is above 8%. now, and all of the time between 1948 and 2009 when obama took office in cumulative months and which the unemployment rate was above. some 39 months and 43 months in just three and a half years of his presidency. those are the staggering your numbers. yet people still say, well, he's trying really i've. lori: he wants to try to cut tax of year and a higher percentage. 75 percent individual income rate. >> it is absurd. there is no economic basis for that other than we don't think people ought to earn that much money, so we're going to take away. that is socialism at its very essence. and so you elected socialist president. voila. you're going to have socialist policy, and that is what you have. he comes out with a 75% tax rat

oftheeconomies, andi think because of that mitt romney's gin more chances than he otherwise would to make his case to the american people. i think this very first debate next week may be his last best chance to make his case. >> do you think if the debate's a flop for mitt romney that all of a sudden some super-pacs and big dollar donors, some of the establishment, do they begin to abandon him next thursday? >> i think it will certainly heighten and go to defcon five. what's the next color is on the homeland security chart, i lose track of them, we'll probably go to. i think what mitt needs to do, craig -- >> fuchsia. >> -- is really be himself. stop trying to be a conservative. he's not. we're not talking about a guy with deep ideological convictions. his real moral convictions are in his family where he has a picturesque american model there. beyond that, he's known for making money for himself and other people and creating jobs for those who don't have wealth. that's who he needs to be. >> it sounds like steve is saying let mitt be mitt. is it too late for that? >> well, it's not as though

mid election. >> no, but the facts are the facts. if we're talking about jobs andtheeconomy, thegreatest thing about this campaign is that voters have no way to say this there's not a difference between the parties. i don't care what you say, romney and the president are in different directions for the country, that's with fiscal policy, domestic policy, with healthcare especially. it is abundantly clear, and i don't know why the president didn't explain why the 5 trillion dollars that's going to be loss and why the 2 trillion is expected. i don't know why as romney said, you keep repeating and repeating, but the fact remains that what happened to the 47% of the people that were written off. aren't they included in the middle class? connell: he never mentioned that. >> he never mentioned it. connell: that had to be on purpose. that had to be -- i mean that was something that's been out there forever. he had to think oh i'm not going to bring this up. >> then why take all these notes on things this guy is saying, where he reversed himself, he should have been just smiling lo

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